What scary me most in this article is the amount of fascist comments done afterwords. We are really in a systemic crisis. Its really scary the impunity of fascist ideas after Auschwitz! Read also here.

Were there no video of her being assaulted by a member of the Greek neo-fascist party Golden Dawn on a TV news program in June, Kanelli would have remained unknown in the United States. But the feisty lawmaker’s tussle showed the world how the Greek economic crisis—exacerbated by Northern European demands for more unpopular austerity measures—is opening a Pandora’s box of extremism.

Her political message is clear: the austerity measures imposed by the Troika (the European Union, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel amount to colonization. The forced wage and pension cuts, the privatization of public services, and the sale of public assets are letting foreign profiteers gobble up the nation’s resources at the people’s expense.

And now Kannelli sees the disturbing rise of fascism as furthering the goals of the EU’s conquest of Greece. “Golden Dawn is a very useful tool for the capitalist crisis,” she said. “They can be used for the dark part of the job.”

Golden Dawn is attempting to gain state funding for private security firms to patrol immigrant neighborhoods, Kanelli claims. The party dispatches motorcycle gangs to harass and intimidate immigrants in the streets of Athens. Kanelli and others accuse the police of protecting Golden Dawn during these hunts. The allegation isn’t shocking, since an estimated 50 percent of Greek police officers voted for Golden Dawn in the May and June elections.

«F…. elections, Portugal is what matters!?» This quote by the prime minister of Portugal is only conceivable if we bear in mind that he, deeper inside him, believe in that. A lot of right wing politicians in Portugal are fascists or easily attracted by fascists propaganda.